[Foundation-l] dumps

[Anthony]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Just to be clear, your suggesting that, in lieu of a compressed dump,
>> > > people who want the full history of the english wikipedia should use
>> > > Special:Export to download it, article by article?
>> > >
>> >
>> > No, I wasn't suggesting it as an alternative to compressed dumps at all.
>> > And Special:Export doesn't even work for historical versions any more.
>>
>>
>> You can still dump full-history for an article. I did a
>> 2,000+ revision dump of an article just a week ago.
>
>
>  Yeah, I guess that bug was reintroduced.  They had it fixed for a while.
>

http://blog.p2pedia.org/2008/09/wgexportallowhistoryfalse.html